Angela Lansbury has died at age 96. The effervescent actor and singer entertained generations of fans on the stage and screen during her eight decades in show business. Lansbury is perhaps best known for her 12-year stint as Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote.” The Hollywood veteran was nearly 60 when the long-running CBS show debuted in 1984—an uncommon feat for an actress of a certain age—and a testament to her considerable charm that devoted fans were able to overlook the implausible number of homicides in fictional Cabot Cove, Maine. Lansbury was in her late 70s when she bid a final farewell to Jessica Fletcher after wrapping the last of the four “Murder, She Wrote” TV movies in 2003—the same year her beloved husband died—but she was still not close to retirement. Her television, stage, and screen career continued to thrive in her golden years. “I’ll probably pass away with one hand on my script,” she quipped to Larry King in 2018, and noted that a great interest in “every part of life” kept her going. Read more about Lansbury's illustrious life and career at the link in our bio. Photograph by Stefanie Keenan—Getty Images for Turner